Budapest, May 22 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán noted the close ties in the past centuries between religious renewal and the preservation of the Hungarian language and the strengthening of Hungarian identity in a written message delivered on the…
Deutsche Telekom organized its yearly Telekom Innovation Contest to find and support new talents and technologies which could then be connected to Deutsche Telekom’s business division and its subsidiaries, innoportal.hu writes. 2016 is the first year when the event chain’s…
Budapest, May 22 (MTI) – Throughout the terms when the Socialists were in government, Hungary’s credit rating was investment grade, the opposition Socialists said on Saturday in response to a recent upgrade by ratings agency Fitch. Fitch announced late on…
Budapest, May 22 (MTI) – The victims of the Roma Holocaust and the 1944 uprising in Auschwitz-Birkenau were remembered at the National Theatre on Saturday, with a performance dubbed 371 Stars marking the day of courage and Roma youth. Deputy…
Budapest, May 22 (MTI) – President János Áder will travel for a three-day visit to the UK on Monday to attend a series of events held in honour of Saint Thomas Becket (1118-1170), the president’s office said. Áder, who will…
Budapest, May 22 (MTI) – American investors think the environment for doing business in Hungary is good, the chairman of the American-Hungarian Business Council said in daily Magyar Hírlap on Saturday. Almost 800 US businesses have invested in Hungary, Eric…
Budapest, May 21 (MTI) – A ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the forced relocation of middle class citizens of Budapest under communism took place at the Budafok Lutheran church on Saturday. The forced relocation was intended to intimidate…
The Veszprém Zoo’s Dinosaur Park was opened on Wednesday 18 May and awaits visitors with 30 life-sized dinosaur sculptures, travelo.hu writes László Török, director of the Zoo, told MTI that the Dinosaur Park’s area is 2 ha, and the project…
Two Transylvanian leaders of the Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement (HVIM) might be sentenced to life, nol.hu writes. The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) pressed charges against István Beke and Zoltán Szőcs on Wednesday. The authorities posted…
The map gives a clear picture on how many break-ins a region had, blikk.hu writes. The Great Plain and Northern Hungary are especially dangerous with 10,600 break-ins in 2015, but Central Hungary had 9,800, and Transdanubia also had 8,000. Budapest,…
Uber has been popular for some time now, but taxi drivers in Hungary keep protesting and pressuring the government to ban the service (read about the most recent protests here, here, and here). Meanwile, a new carpooling service has been…
The 6th Hungarians World Meeting was held in Urania National Film Theatre on 17th May. After all the historical flags were put on display, the grace was told by Fülöp Kocsis, metropolitan archbishop of the Archeparchy of Hajdúdorog and head of the Hungarian…
There are many rumors in the media about the actual costs of the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, but atlatszo.hu calculated how much money the government will really spend, based on government decisions and the amount of money that was separated…
Mno.hu writes that patients in Hungarian hospitals will have access to drugs which have not yet fulfilled the pedigree requirements but already made it through the second phase of clinical trial. These new drugs could bring new hope to cancer…
The new Metro Line M3 cars were presented yesterday in Moscow, magyarnarancs.hu writes. The cars were renovated in Russia, and there are altogether six of them in one unit. Ambassador of Hungary to Russia János Balla also attended the ceremony. At…
The Hungarian Association for Innovation sent two girls to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2016 who competed with 1700 talented young students, index.hu writes. One of them developed a shopping application, and the other did stem cell…
The Csíksomlyó hogback was crowded with pilgrims on Saturday, alfahir.hu writes. Szék utca, which leads to the Csíksomlyó church, was crowded with people. Pilgrims then continued their journey to the hogback. According to the traditional customs, the groups that march under…
For the first time in 77 years, the Hungarian men’s national ice hockey team secured an International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship win after they beat Belarus 5-2, writes index.hu. This win also gave back hope, as the team may still have a chance to stay…
When deciding whether to by something made locally or globally we usually take the same aspects into account: price/value ratio, familiarity with the product, or previous experiences. However, according to Nielsen’s globally conducted report, Hungarians might be influenced more by…
The workers of the organizations that belong to the Ministry of Interior might have an easier access to self-defense guns, magyaridok.hu writes. According to a new law, employees could keep their guns, even if they are not on duty; this would…